Empire of the Hun

Sorry still trying to figure out how to work the map but here's another update and probably one of the more difficult ones.

The Imperial Emirate of Arabia:
The Emirate of Arabia was originally a region of warring tribes and small city states that had existed in this situation for centuries. Changes came around the 6th Century when Christianity changed in the peninsula. Arabia was far from Rome and the Popes decrees rarely made it to the centres of the Arabian Dioceses and the loss of Rome to Attila, the relocation of the Papacy even further West to Iberia and the schism between the Iberian Papal Church and the Byzantine Ceasaropapism disconnected the Arabs from Catholicism even more.



In the 7th Century a yet unknown Bishop named Akh'mid that led the Diocese around the city of Medina. He preached the loss of guidance from the corrupt Papacy and that the teachings should be administered by local Theocratic Councils of Patriarchs. This religion rapidly spread throughout the Arabian Peninsula. Medinanism spread throughout Arabia and united the Arab tribes into an Imperial Emirate that centralised itself in the manner of its Byzantine neighbours. Hoping to emulate the Empires of Persia and Rome they sponsored education through both the Church and through educational institutes and academies. This was the establishment of the Arabic educational policies.



The Imperial Emirate of Arabia led the Arabic Expansion and by the mid 8th century ruled an Empire that stretched from the Indus Valley to the Iberian Peninsula. However after only several decades the empire began to contract. Initial stages of the contraction began in 887 A.D and was unstoppable by 889 A.D Not enough people had been converted immediately and the nations they had conquered had too defined an identity to wipe out.



This was known as the Arabic Contraction as their Empire fractured and disappeared and the Arabs found themselves once again confined to the peninsula. However they had left a large legacy and diaspora and had succeeded in their failure to conquer, to instead extend their religion throughout North Africa and the Middle East. This would lead to the Church of Yahweh and the Buddha later but that would not be for some time.


With this decline the Imperial Emirate was now a shadow of what it once was. Even fellow Arabs broke off from the Imperial Emirate to establish their own realms.



Soon the Imperial Emirate was confined to only the Western and Central portion of the peninsula with even the cities on the other side of the Red Sea lost to them and the neighbouring states fortifying their borders facing the Arabs. With the loss of so much territory, resources and above all morale the Imperial Emirate was left a husk of it's previous glory with only the splendour of the Holy City all that was left of it's great legacy. However in the 13th Century things would change.



The Emirate of the Ghassani:
The Ghassani were the earliest of Arabian nations to convert to Christianity. For many centuries they had simply been a small and somewhat insignificant border state that had replaced the Lakhmids.
However it was in the 7th Century that things changed for the Ghassani.



They found themselves quickly assimilated into the Imperial Emirate of Arabia. The Ghassani were quickly converted to Medinanism as like the other Arabs they had found themselves disconnected from the Papacy and its decrees for centuries.



The Ghassani were on the front-lines of the initial invasion. Several decades prior to the Arabic Expansion the Ghassani had been displaced somewhat from their original territories just South of Mesopotamia by the Persians. The Ghassani were some of the most fanatical and ferocious warriors in the army that broke the Persians and routed their armies during the initial stages of the expansion. Many did settle in Mesopotamia but most remained in their homeland until 852 A.D where they were relocated to the Eastern portion of Arabia or dispersed throughout the Arabian Empire.



After the contraction was complete the Ghassani found that they possessed land only around the Eastern portion of Arabia. The Ghassani had gone from the greatest members of the imperial Emirate to a small, impoverished nation in desolate Eastern Arabia.



The Yemeni Emirates:
The Yemen people had always been an isolated portion of the Arabic people.



The Yemeni Emirates formed mainly around the 6th Century from small Arabic clans into proper states as Christianity and new culture reached that portion of the peninsula. Despite these changes the Yemeni remained farming states much as they had been for centuries.



However during the rise of the Imperial Emirate in the 7th Century the Yemeni actually resisted the Imperial Arabic armies until it became obvious that too many Yemeni had converted to Medinanism. The Yemeni Emirs convened and then collectively struck a deal with the Imperial Emir to make their states semi-independent vassals under the Imperial Emir.



The Yemeni agreed to provide troops during the Arabic Expansion. Several decades later though the benefits of the Expansion became apparent to the Yemeni. The conquest of Persia saw new trade links to india appearing through the Persian Gulf from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley and now the Yemeni Emirates were one of the trade hubs along this new route. Despite the contraction of the Arabs the Yemeni remained a trade hub as the new trade route was not abandoned.



In order to maximise the efficiency of their trade the Yemeni Emirs once again convened in 832 A.D to establish a new political system. The Emirs established a from of oligarchy to theoretically unite their Emirates without abandoning their individual sovereignty.



The Yemeni Emirates continued to control the trade links through the Persian Gulf and their greatest achievement happened in 911 A.D where the Yemeni established a professional naval force to patrol the gulf and ward off pirates.



The navy was put under the control of the Oligarchy as a whole rather than under the individual Emirs which also promoted in a sense the unity of the Yemeni Emirates. However in the 13th Century a crisis would strike that would cripple the Emirates.

Well there you go hope whoever reads this enjoys it :eek:.
Next is the Baltic Region HOORAY. Sigh.
 
Well here it is another update. I really have too much time on my hands.

The Kingdom of Danemark:
The Danes were a German-Scandinavian people that had existed in the form of many different clan holdings and hill-fort settlements much like their ancestors. Also like their ancestors they followed the old Gods Woden, Thor and Tyr.



In an increasingly Christian Europe this left them as oddities btu also out of the way and largely insignificant to Europe as well.



In the 5th Century the Hunnic Empire reached the coast of the Baltic and upset the tribes along the region. The Baltic and Germanic tribes were all displaced and headed in many directions. The first incursions were by the Saxons. However they were beaten off by the more hardy Danes as well as the fact that most of the Saxons had headed West instead of North to the fabled lands of Gaul and Britannia.



This threat is what inspired King Reignar to unite the Danes into a kingdom to stand against invaders. His war of unification took 7 long and bloody years before the last of the Danish Clan Chiefs surrendered. Reigner confiscated their lands and placed his own Jarls on their thrones as representatives of his rule.



Later Danish Kings continued his expansion of the kingdom by moving into the Northern lands of the Norden or Norwegians and conquered all but the most Northern mountain strongholds. However it was in the 8th Century that something became apparent. There were not enough riches in the Kingdom to pay for all of the Kingdom's changes.



This is what led to one of the greatest periods of raiding and migration since the collapse of the Roman Empire. The Viking Invasions.



The Danes led the initial expansion and were soon joined by their Swedish and Norwegian neighbours. The Danes headed West and like the Saxons headed to the British Isles. They found the area under the control of several fairly complacent and rich Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.



Their first raids were for wealth but they soon found the British Isles far more agreeable than their homelands and brought their families with them to colonise Europe.


The first realm was the Danish Kingdom of Yorvik in OTL Northern England. Yorvik was rich and exported wheat and grain back to their homelands. Pther Viking settlements appeared across Northern Gaul and Germany and at one time in the Mid 9th Century the King of the Danes ruled from Norway to Ireland and Aquitania. One result of the expansion was the arrival of Christianity to Scandinavia.



The old Gods had been dying in the Kingdom for many years now and a religion that offered more then it asked for was far more enticing towards the Danes and their subjects. The Danish King was happy to follow Catholicism as the Pope was far from Danemark and the Pope's attention was usually far more focused on other matters to bother with some barbarians in northern Europe and so the local priests were left to handle religious matters by themselves.



However this quickly contracted as the peoples they raided recovered and developed methods to combat the Viking raiders and soon new navies patroled the coasts and the Viking colonies were isolated from their homelands. The greatest blow came in 881 A.D when the Kingdom of Yorvik fell to the Anglo-Saxon King Eathelhred and the Danes had lost all their oversea colonies and territories except Norway.



The last link to Danish prosperity was to the amber trade that continued with Europe however the Saxons had replaced them not only as seafarers but as traders as well and by the 10th Century the Danes had once again faded to obscurity.



The High-Kingdom of Skandia:
Skandia was for centuries a collection of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Soumi states that farmed, traded and fought with one another just as they had since their ancestors arrived. The centuries passed them by with little consequence on their culture.



However it was in Late 5th Century that things began to change. The Danes had united and begun to invade Skandia whilst to the East the Littorns had united also and begun to develop their own cities and armies under the Huns.



According to accounts a previously unknown Swedish Warlord named Styirka Undulsson cobbled together an Empire in Skandia and was able to beat his neighbours into submission.



However despite this the High-Kingdom faced a similar problem to the Danes. Skandia was poor but whilst the Danes could leave for new lands the Skandians were trapped in their own land by the Danes. So they turned to the rivers instead. The Skandians raided down rivers like the Elbe and the Dneiper into the Hunnic Empire and also raided the Littorn and the Hunnic Empire.



These actions allowed the High-Kingdom to survive. Skandia much like Danemark is the remnant of a former power but unlike the Danes the Skandians were able to adapt and engaged in trade with the Huns and Littorn and have become brokers and guards for these trading powers. Also in keeping with their Viking traditions the Skandians migrated out as mercenaries for other European nations.



The Kingdom of Littorn:
The Littorn are seen as one of the oldest continuous people in Europe. The Littorn people are described as a Baltic people however in the 5th Century with the coming of the Huns it also brought the Slavs to the region. The Slavs failed to wipe out the native Baltics but it brought some changes. One of these was the attention of the Huns who raided the region and demanded they become their vassals.



This led to one of the most profound events in their history. This was when the Littorn both Baltics and Slavs were united under a centralised authority by the Huns. The Littorn threw off the Hunnic control in 742 A.D during the Second Hunnic Civil War. The Littorn returned to the way they had spent much of their life for centuries and even began to abandon the centralised government the Huns had established as the old ways were reimposed.



It was in the 8th Century that the Vikings attacked their coastal settlements however with no navy, no army and no centralised authority to combat this the raids continued largely unopposed.



The greatest period of change took place in the Late 9th Century when Christian missionaries sponsored by the huns and even by the Danes arrived in Littorn to convert the Littorn. With the exception of a few isolated rural communities the majority of the Littorns were converted by the year 1000 A.D.

Next is West Asia. Yay.
Well some replies would be nice just so I know people still care about my work other than my 'rant turned discussion thread'.
Oh well :p. Sigh.
 
Scratch any of my previous statements on difficulty. THIS one was difficult.

The Khanate of the Gorturki:
The Gorturki are a branch of the Turkic tribes that lived in Central Asia. For many centuries they lived much of their lives as they had for centuries whilst either attacking Persia or serving as their vassals. It was in the 8th Century around 796 A.D that the Gorturki people united the surrounding Khanates under a new super nation. However the system was still decentralised and the old individual Khans and nomadic tribes still ruled much as they had.

Due to this one of the greatest problems for the Khanate, that was religious controversy. Central Asia had been the battling grounds for to religions Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism. Both religions gained many followers in the region and this began to cause conflict between the tribes under the Gorturki rule.

This would be ended in 872 A.D when a strange man appeared in the Khanate's borders. He said he had no name merely a mission and that he had been revealed the truth. He preached of the compassion, benevolence and power of the God Yahweh and of the Messiah Jeshuah of Nazareth. However he also told of Yahweh's greatest Prophet the Teacher Buddha who would guide humanity towards salvation. The new religion spread throughout the Khanate and by 875 A.D even the Khan was converted. The Khanate then sent out preachers of its own and annexed those small states that were converted. This began the Westward expansion of the Gorturki until they eventually reached the borders of the European Kingdoms.

Despite the peaceful teachings of their religion many enterprising tribal Khans saw the European states as targets of opportunity whose static lifestyles made all the easier to raid. This would continue for several more centuries until the 13th Century where a great disaster would hit the Khanate and the rest of Europe.

The Empire of Persia:
Persia is an ancient and proud Empire that had for many centuries been the centre of culture and power in the Middle East. The Persian Empire had for centuries been in a state of constant conflict with the Roman/Byzantine Empires and in 689 A.D the persians launched their greatest offensive on the Byzantines.

They attacked when the Byzantines were at their weakest at the time and were quickly defeated. The Persians took Syria, Palestine and even Egypt before they had overextended themelves and had to halt their offensive.


However they had inadvertently spelt their own doom with this offensive. It was in 741 A.D that the Arabic expansion began and the overstretched Persian lines still in conflict with the Byzantines were attacked by the Emir's forces. With their armies overstretched and weary the Persians were defeated and their Empire lost to the Arabs who ruled for several decades and attempted to convert the Persians to Medinanism.

The Persians remained under Arab rule for several decades until the contraction where the Persians rose up and ousted the Arabs from Persia. The Empire was once again under Persian rule however it was battered and war-torn and soon found itself under attack from the Turkic tribes. There was also the problem with the large number of Christians now in the Empire that had now become an obvious problem.
The Empire's greatest problem came in the 7th Century when the Yahweh-Buddhists arrived in the Kingdom. It took longer to convert the Persians than it had the Turks but in the desiccated Persian Empire the Yahweh-Buddhists were even more appealing.

It was in 912 A.D when a Yahweh-Buddhist uprising took place in Persia that removed the Zoroastrian aristocracy and put a Yahweh-Buddhist ruler on the throne. This also lead to the final break-off of the Persians in Mesopotamia and also the opening of trade links with the Gorturki.
However in the 13th Century a terrible disaster would strike Persia and the rest of Europe.



Next should be East Africa with any luck.
 
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Well I'm finished up to the 13th Century.

The Kingdom of Nubia:
Nubia was a nation reconstituted by the Byzantines in 673 A.D to act as a vassal state and guard over the Nile River and the trade that took part on it. The Byzantines gathered together the tribal Kingdoms that existed along the River Nile and created a single Kingdom under Byzantine protection. The Byzantines spent several years putting down uprisings and establishing their control over the new Kingdom. The Nubian King was simply a puppet of the Byzantine Emperor and every decision made had to be approved by the commander of the Byzantine forces.

In 713 A.D the Kingdom declared it's independence from the Empire when the commander of the local garrisons an efficient and charismatic man overthrew the monarch and declared himself King David of Nubia. David repulsed a Byzantine force sent from Aegypt and spent several years consolidating his rule.

Unfortunately he died childless 2 years later from septicaemia contracted from a battle wound. His successor was a native that had served under him in the military. His successor turned out to be a better diplomat than a soldier and was only able to avert invasion through a series of trade and diplomatic treaties first with the Byzantines and then the Aethiopians.


During the Persian occupation the Nubians continued their trade in order not to gain the Persians attention. Nubia remained quiet for decades and remained out of the attentions of both the Persians and the Arabs. However in 712 A.D Arab missionaries entered Nubia. Like the rest of Africa Nubia was rapidly converted to Medinanism. Their alienation from the Byzantine Empire and its Church helped accelerate the conversion. Unfortunately the Expansion did reach Nubia. The Imperial Emirate began seizing coastal cities and establishing colonies of their own on the Nubian Coast.

During the contraction the Nubians seized the unprotected Arab colonies and took control of the trade hubs along the Red Sea coast. However they were unable to establish a navy of their own and had to open up their ports to Arabic warships for their protection from the pirates that scoured the Red Sea.

Nubia would remain a vibrant nation until the 13th Century where a terrible disaster would change everything.

The Empire of Aethiop:
Aethiop was an old nation that had existed in one form or another for many centuries before the rise of the Huns or even Rome. Despite their age and history the Aethiopians had remained a small and rather insignificant nation that carved out a home in the northern Edge of the mighty Rift Valley. Here they had built majestic temples and mighty cities and had kept themselves out of the attention of much of the world. They had traded with the other powers of the Red Sea area but had little contact otherwise with the outside world.

Christianity had already existed in the Kingdom since the 1st Century. However like the rest of Africa Aethiop was visited throughout the centuries by missionaries from the other Kingdoms. Their own unique religious denomination was maintained by their terrain. This allowed them to also maintain their isolation.

However in 8th Century Aethiop opened relations with Nubia and also with the Arabs and Somalis when the arabic Expansion took place. Aethiop's isolation was once again maintained by the contraction with their neighbours crippled by the chaos of the contraction.

Aethiop's isolation would once again be it's saving grace in the 13
th Century when a terrible disaster would strike Europe and all of aethiop's neighbours but would be stopped by Aethiop's low population and the complex labyrinth of the Rift Valley.

The Somali Emirates:
The Somali tribes had existed on the region of the Horn of Africa. The Somalis had fought and traded with one another whilst they farmed, herded and hunted in the region. It was in the 8th Century that the Imperial Emirate's navies reached the coast during the Arabic Expansion. The Arabs established colonies and converted the Somalis to Medinanism.

Despite the Arabs best attempts the Somalis retained their traditional lifestyles and the contraction saw the coastal cities abandoned by the retreating Arabs. Some warlords did establish themselves as trade-lords of the coasts at least by the standards of the Somalis.



Well it will be edited but I'm done so far. However I have some ideas of what will happen and just you wait for the changes in East Asia and Central Africa. However Europe will face it's greatest hardship since the Fall of Rome.

Well here you all go.
 
One point. Christianity is not some inexorable unassailable force. The Huns Shamanism, and values could easily be better used by their Empire, as they probably did not want to create another rival in their Empire with the inclusion of a clergy like OTL Roman Catholics. I think it is very unlikely that any hun, 1 or 1000 years later would convert to something they see as decadent, and having weaker values.
 
One point. Christianity is not some inexorable unassailable force. The Huns Shamanism, and values could easily be better used by their Empire, as they probably did not want to create another rival in their Empire with the inclusion of a clergy like OTL Roman Catholics. I think it is very unlikely that any hun, 1 or 1000 years later would convert to something they see as decadent, and having weaker values.

Sorry I know that I'm still working on this at the moment.
 
Still its a great story, and I would love to see a surviving Hunnic Empire. Eventually though an epic clash of huns and mongols will happen though right?

Sorry but the Mongol Empire won't come to power but there will be a major battle of two steppe powers in Europe.
 

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Sorry but the Mongol Empire won't come to power but there will be a major battle of two steppe powers in Europe.

What about the Hungarians? (Magyars)
Will the Kingdom of Hungary be created?
Will the Hungarians still claim Hunnic ancestry? (Medieval Magyars claimed to be descendants of the Huns. Székely people in Transylvania still do)
 
Well here's some new ideas. Tell me if any are bad.

Post 13th Century Notes:
Bubonic Plague outbreak.
Yahweh-Buddhist Crusade in Persia
The Rise of the Aegyptian Empire
First Jewish Emperor of Nicaea
The Hunnic Gorturki Wars
The Saxon Conquest of Eireland
the Allemagni Hunnic Wars

Well I'd best go and look up on some changes to East Asia as well.
 
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What about the Hungarians? (Magyars)
Will the Kingdom of Hungary be created?
Will the Hungarians still claim Hunnic ancestry? (Medieval Magyars claimed to be descendants of the Huns. Székely people in Transylvania still do)

Well the Magyars are part of the Hunnic Empire. They may claim some connection to the Hunnic legacy especially as the real Huns become increasingly Slavic. As the Huns decline they will establish their own Kingdom in the Ukraine and might even establish their own Empire later on.
 
Well here's some new ideas. Tell me if any are bad.

Post 12th Century Notes:
Bubonic Plague outbreak.
Yahweh-Buddhist Crusade in Persia
The Rise of the Aegyptian Empire
First Jewish Emperor of Nicaea
The Hunnic Gorturki Wars
The Saxon Conquest of Eireland
the Allemagni Hunnic Wars

Well I'd best go and look up on some changes to East Asia as well.


All good points, and interesting ideas.
 
Sorry anyone :(.
But I still can't make any maps so i'm just moving on with the text boxes unless anyone is willing to make a map for me (hint hint). Any way I just realised that on the original Huns post I only went up to the 11th Century so my next post will be covering the 11th-16th Centuries, whilst the others will be 13th-16th Century.
Well there it is:eek:.
 
Well here you go and I'd just like to say that this was especially difficult to write but I didn't want to let you or myself down on this one:).

The Decline and Death of the Hunnic Empire:
At the death of Eoderic the Hunnic Empire was at it's greatest extent since Attila's death however Eoderic had also set it up for it's destruction.



Despite his conversion to Christianity and his devout piety Eoderic had one vice that was not properly recorded until after his death. Despite Eoderic's marriage to the Magyar Princess Virag he was a philanderous womaniser and kept several mistresses. By his death he had his three children with Virag and close to 10 illegitimate children at least on record.



All of the male heirs he left behind claimed the throne for themselves and the 4th Hunnic Civil War began. The Civil War crippled the Hun's already overstretched military and most of Eoderic's previous conquests broke off. The Greek Peninsula rebelled and then fell apart into numerous city states, principalities and petty kingdoms, these states mainly became vassals and protectorates of the Nicaean Empire. Fortunately the Huns were able to hold onto much of Thrace and Constantinople.



The next blow came in the Ukraine where Hataulf, Eoderic's son with Virag claimed possession of the Magyar Khanate and broke it off from the Hunnic Empire. Despite these losses the Huns were eventually able to rally around the greatest of the rival claimants Brekga, who was able to hold onto what was left of his Empire. By 1013 A.D the empire was a fraction of what it had been upon Eoderic's death.
However the Empire faced it's next threat barely a month after it had reconsolidated itself.



On April 17th 1013 A.D the Allemani invaded the weak Empire. An army led by Allemani King Frederick II crossed the Rhine into OTL Bavaria and laid waste the the armies of the local Sub-Khans. The Imperial Khan Brekga led his own army to face Frederick's army at Ennsburg a German settlement founded before the Allemani's ancestors were forced out of their lands.
The Allemani relied on armoured horsemen and heavy infantry but it hired mercenary horsemen from Iberia and Carthage. The Hunnic army facing it was made up of levy troops with the exception of Brekga's armoured horsemen bodyguards. The Allemani immediately charged the Huns battlelines whilst the mercenaries were sent round the flanks. Brekga broke off from his main force with his bodyguards and taunted Frederick's unit from the main force. Frederick being overconfident gave chase to Brekga's unit and was soon separated from his army.



The battle ended when Frederick realised that he had been led into a trap by Brekga but it was too late as his knights were cut off and surrounded by Brekga's forces and he was killed. Brekga returned to the battle with Frederick's head on a lance and rode around the battlefield waving it like a standard. The sight of their king's head on the Imperial khan's lance demoralised the Allemani who broke and ran. Brekga however was unable to give chase to them with his exhausted army and the Allemani rallied in Bavaria. Brekga had no choice but to sue for peace and soon a treaty was worked out. However the Allemani were able to keep their remaining conquests which they fortified too heavily to retake.



Brekga's reign was characterised with further reforms to the army to create a professional military force as well as fortifying and consolidating what was left of his Empire. He died in the year 1034 A.D.



The next few decades saw Brekga's successors straining to hold onto the Empire as the many races under Hunnic control as well as many of the more independent minded Sub-Khans saw this as their chance to break away. The greatest of these was when one of the Northern Slavic vassal states that bordered Littorn rebelled against the Imperial garrison hoping to emulate their Northern 'brethren'. It failed horribly and the Hunnic retribution on the rebels was almost on par with the crushing of Spartacus' rebellion.



In the year 1099 A.D the Imperial Khan Attila II hoping to live up to his name-sake once again attempted a conquest. His target was the Empire's old vassal the Magyar Khanate. His invasion was successful as the Magyars had been suffering from economic problems and internal unrest from the corrupt and incompetent Khan. Attila was able to successfully conquer/'liberate' the Magyars from their ineffective rulers but this woould be the limits of his conquest as the Dacian and Italian provinces began to rebel due to Attila stripping their garrisons to acquire extra manpower for his conquest. Attila quickly returned to the Empire and quashed the rebellions from Sigdunum and Venecia.



It was then that one of Attila's more philosophical advisors suggested a solution to the manpower problem as the old system required Hunnic citizenship and ancestry to qualify for the military professionally. Under this suggestion Attila opened the military to all ethnics which added thousands of potential soldiers to his military and recruitment reached record levels in the Empire.



With the expansion under Attila however the threat it had been a buffer against became present to the Empire. During the period where the Magyars had their independence the Gorturki tribe of Central Asia had expanded and had also brought their new religion with them. Yahweh-Buddhist missionaries soon infiltrated the Empire. This caused dissent between the conservative Hunnic priests and the Yahweh-Buddhist preachers. It was in 1187 A.D that a group of priests gathered together to form the Hunnic Inquisition. The Inquisition would become infamous across Europe for its zeal and it's cruelty.



However any of the Empire's trials that it had faced would pale in comparison to the one that it would soon face.



It was in 1227 A.D that a terrible pestilence struck the continent. The most obvious symptom of the plague was the formation of massive swellings or buboes on the victim. The plague struck from two directions and quickly spread across the whole of Europe sparring no-one. Every nation was affected and the death-toll quickly reached the millions. Whole provinces were depopulated as their inhabitants fell to sickness whilst others were forced to migrate to escape the pestilence to escape the pestilence. However there was nowhere to escape to as the pestilence could be found everywhere. Mercifully the Black Plague (named after the colour of the buboes) as it was named only lasted 3 years before it had wiped itself out.



The plague left the Empire in a worse state than it had ever been in history. The Empire had lost nearly 75% of it's population and it's workforce was crippled horribly. The Hunnic Empire continued however to limp onwards as it slowly recovered it's population. The 1240s are remembered as one of the most bloody as the Inquisition used the Yahweh-Buddhist as scapegoats for the Black Plague. Soon large wooden stakes for burning were erected in nearly every settlement in the Empire. It was in 1247 A.D that the Yakkofv the Cardinal of Attila the head of the Inquisition superseded the Imperial Khan and established a Theocracy over the Hunnic Empire.



In 1275 A.D the Imperial Cardinal declared war on their greatest enemy the Gorturki Khanate. The Hunnic army crossed the border into Gorturki territory, burning and pillaging as it went. The Huns wiped out entire tribes for their heresy whilst some commanders at least attempted to convince the Gorturki of converting. However the war ended once winter set in and the overstretched Huns found themselves stranded in enemy territory, in a hostile climate with zealous enemies and alienated locals attacking their supply caravans.



The war ended in humiliation when the commander of the army ordered a retreat that cost hundreds of lives as the Gorturki used hit and run attacks to whittle the retreating Huns.



The Theocracy lasted for many more decades until the Late 14th Century where disgruntled peasants oppressed and persecuted by the ruling Theocrats rose up and overthrew the government. The leader of the rebels was a Yahweh-Buddhist who believed in religious tolerance. He crowned himself the Imperial Khan in 1394 A.D and began a new chapter in the Hunnic Empire. An age of religious tolerance swept through the Empire sponsored by the new Imperial Khan who despite his own religious alignment did not persecute the other religions in his Empire or his remaining vassals. However many of the people in his Empire were unable to accept this and there was religious turmoil though it never became apparent to the public at large there was conflict between the conservative Christians and the new Yahweh-Buddhists that culminated in one Yahweh-Buddhist community lynching it's remaining Catholics.



News of this reached the Pope in Tarraco in 1401 A.D. The Pope had already denounced the Empire and it's new heretical ruler but was enraged when news of the abuse of the Empire's Catholics reached his attention. The Pope called for a Holy War or Crusade to reclaim the Hunnic Empire from the heretics. King Henry I of Allemand and Emperor Aelfred II of the Saxons responded to this and sent their armies along with thousands of militant peasants to invade the Empire. The Northern Crusade was the final nail in the coffin for the Hunnic Empire. Dsespite valiant efforts the Huns were routed and obliterated at the Battles of Rumada and Alldeburg. The Imperial Khan was overthrown, the Yahweh-Buddhists driven out of the Empire and the final end of the Hunnic Empire.



The Pope proclaimed the Crusade a victory and personally blessed the two monarchs who had led the crusading forces. He also presided over the creation of the Holy Danubian Empire from the remnants of the Hunnic empire and the crowning of Oberon I a Hunnic German who had assisted the Crusade by offering his personal support to the Pope and had been the one who led the army at Alldeburg and killed the Imperial Khan Attila III. With his crowning the Hunnic Empire that had stood for nearly a thousand years was destroyed.

Well there you have it the Hunnic Empire dies with both a whimper and a bang:cool:. But just because they're gone doesn't mean the thread is gone the changes the Huns made live on even if they don't.
 
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My next few posts are going to be by section like before and htey are going to be in this order.

Gaul:
The Kingdom of Allemand:
The Kingdom of Aquitania:

Britain:
The Empire of the Anglo-Saxons/England:
The Kingdom of Pictland:
The Eireish Gaels:

Iberia:
The Kingdom of Iberian Francia:
The Theocracy of Galicia:
The Kingdom/Emirate of the Visigoths:
The Emirate of Gades:

North Africa:
The Kingdom/Empire of Carthage:
The Empire of Aegypt:

Anatolia, Greece & the Caucasus:
The Nicaean Empire:
The Grand Duchy of Thessalonika:
The Khanate of Bolgaria:

Arabia:
The Imperial Emirate of Arabia:
The Emirate of Yemeni:

The Baltic:
The Kingdom of Danemark:
The High-Kingdom/Tsardom of Skandia:
The Tsardom of Littorn:

Eastern Europe:
The Kingdom of Magyary:
The Danubian Empire:

West Asia:
The Imperial Khanate of the Gorturki:
The Empire of Persia:

East Africa:
The Kingdom of Nubia:
The Empire of Aethiop:
The Somali Emirates:



I am always happy to accept criticism (NO TROLLING) as well as any suggestions and or requests for consideration (except maps at this time until I figure out how to make them work because my computer hates me).
 
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